Just following orders' is no excuse unless you're in the bedroom.

Truth and integrity must be so rare these days that it confuses people when they hear it.

There is the purity of love, harmonious in every way, but not meant for a lifetime, and then there is the steady love of commitment - no less real but completely different. She had both.

Darling, if I take your breath away, I will give you mine.

We love because we can lose. If there was no threat of separation, no death to shake us to our core, we probably wouldn't love much at all.

Connecting with someone is not necessarily a bond with a significant other, or even a friend, but can be the indefinable - perhaps the rarest and most precious thing in life to find at all.

Even "meant to be" takes work.

I'd rather be befriended as an aimless lost soul than be befriended for adornment, gain or goal.

Am I a friend or a prospect? Imagine how much kinder life would be if people put as much effort into befriending others instead of trying to sell them something.

Where are the memories that held us together? Where are the dreams that were yet to come? I'm afraid to be happy. I shouldn't be happy. If I'm happy without you does that mean I've told you goodbye?

One of the disadvantages to having a choice is the inevitability to hang oneself on freedoms rope.

Zoe let the poetry flow over her, like shadows on water, sunlight against stone: timeworn words shaped like stars, like shells, like the ruins of lost temples, soft as the breaths of mystics.

All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.

I like to say I'm geek-chic with a little bit of showgirl.I get asked it a lot, and it really does kind of sum it up.

In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us.

Every time there's a tragedy, everything goes up.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I'm becoming.

In fact, there are more homeowners today than ever before in the history of our Nation and more minority homeowners than ever before in the history of our Nation.

The sun is getting dim, will I pay for who I've been?

I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.